Desktop enviroment 🔼
@ wkp/desktop envs @ wkp / comparison of desktop envs.
desktop envs / community discussions 🔼
@ XFCE is building a new WM and compositor for Wayland
Devuan Desktop Enviroments 🔼
MATE 🔼
XFCE 🔼
- wm :Openbox
- panel :tint2
- system monitor:conky
- app menu:jgmenu
LXQt 🔼
LXDE 🔼
@ wkp/LXDE
- wm :Openbox
- panel :tint2
- system monitor:conky
- app menu:jgmenu
KDE 🔼
Gnome 🔼
Desktop Envs NOT in Devuan 🔼
CAFE (fork of MATE) 🔼
usint CTK (fork of GTK3),
Bunsen 🔼
@ bunsenlab.org
- wm :Openbox
- panel :tint2
- system monitor:conky
- app menu:jgmenu
Desktop env / components 🔼
components / window manager 🔼
components / display manager 🔼
components / display server 🔼
components / windows 🔼
components / app menus 🔼
app menus / about 🔼
The current debian policy on its supported desktop menu systems @
In jwm and pekwm the main app menu seems to be filled only with a few of the installed apps
app menus / debian menu system 🔼
[@refpage](https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/)
pekwm in its static /etc/pekwm/config file includes a debian-menu that is a file generated and not packaged in the pekwm deb file.
app menus / jgmenu 🔼
[@jgmenu](https://jgmenu.github.io/index.html)
app menus / menumaker 🔼
[@menumaker](https://menumaker.sourceforge.net/) MenuMaker is a menu generation utility for X window managers on *NIX systems. It is capable of finding lots of installed programs and generating a root menu consistent across all supported X window managers, so one will get (almost) the same menu no matter which window manager is used.
app menus / examination of menu build in pekwm and jwm 🔼
/usr/share/menu/qutebrowser
?package(qutebrowser):needs="x11" section="Applications/Network/Web Browsing" \
title="Qutebrowser" \
longtitle="Qutebrowser Web Browser" \
command="qutebrowser" \
icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/qutebrowser.xpm"
Interstingly qutebrowser seem to follow a menu standard that no other programs follows. Thus a user of pekwm could be puzzled as to why only qutebrowser appears on the jwm and pekwm menu,